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I am from PA and today (6th of March 2008), I called the House Judiciary Committee where this bill comes from and spoke to JJ there, according to him it looks as this bill will do like it normally does each and every year and that is die for the year and then the GrassRoots people will get it brought up again next year. I questioned why this bill is just sitting and he said it has a minority report attached to it which means the ONLY way it gets debated on the floor is if there is NOTHING else to debate about and there IS something everyday to debate about so in short this will die again this year. CITIZENS OF SC speak up, call your senators and congressman's, try pushing them, if not this will not go anywhere. You can call yourself and they will tell you the same thing and that unless by magic there is nothing else to debate on then each and every day and every month it gets pushed back to the very last thing, thats bottom line

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Full Text: http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_...bills/3212.htm Feb. 14, 2007: Unanimously given a favorable recommendation by the House Judiciary General Laws subcommittee.
Feb. 20, 2007: Unanimously given a favorable recommendation by the House Judiciary Committee to the full SC House.
Feb. 22, 2007: Brought before the House for 2nd reading. Procedural delay (24hr point of order) requested by Rep. Jeff Duncan [R-Laurens &amp; Newberry Cos.]
Feb. 27, 2007: Scheduled for 2nd reading before the House.
Feb. 28, 2007: Recommitted to Judiciary Committee.
Mar. 1, 2007: Vote reconsidered to send the bill to Judiciary Committee. Received 2nd reading. Roll call vote 100=yeas 2=nays. Unanimous consent for 3rd reading on the next legislative day.
Mar. 2, 2007: House Read third time and sent to Senate
Mar. 6, 2007: Senate Introduced and read first time. Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary
Mar. 7, 2007: Senate Referred to Subcommittee: Hawkins (ch), Sheheen, Lourie, Vaughn.
May 2, 2007: Senate Subcommittee unanimously voted to give a favorable recommendation and send the bill back to full Senate Judiciary Committee.
May 8, 2007: Senate Judiciary Committee voted to give a favorable recommendation and send the bill to the full Senate. Sen. Anderson attached a minority report to the bill.

[line] February 6th, 2008: GrassRoots leaders met with Sen. Larry Martin to ask him to sponsor our Gun-Free Zones Liability Act, and to do what ever possible to get H. 3212 onto the special order calendar and onto the Senate floor for a vote. Sen. Martin is Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee. If Sen. Martin wants any bill to do so he can make it happen. Sen. Martin told GrassRoots leaders he would do this. Sen. Martin did not commit to sponsor the Gun-Free Zones Liability Act, but agreed to examine the bill and consider sponsoring it.